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How to delete "22find" starting page, popping-up when changing "Tabs"

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Whenever I access any "tab", enters "22find portal de sites" link as starting page. How can I delete this ? The "Start Icon" > Search does not find anything. (Sorry for poor english - portuguese is my language.

Whenever I access any "tab", enters "22find portal de sites" link as starting page. How can I delete this ? The "Start Icon" > Search does not find anything. (Sorry for poor english - portuguese is my language.

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Try to reset some preferences to the default with the SearchReset extension:

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:

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If you want a blank tab, enter about:config into the address bar, hit the return key on the keyboard, and change this setting:

browser.newtab.url - change to about:blank

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Chosen Solution

Try to reset some preferences to the default with the SearchReset extension:

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:

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Go to Add ons - Extensions and remove Proxy tool (by 22find).

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Hi,

To remove 22find.com do the following:

  1. Enter “about:config” in url bar in order to open settings page;
  2. Write “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
  3. Write “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
  4. Write “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
  5. Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset.

Very often more than one browser is affected by hijackers like 22find.com, if you need to remove it from other browsers, follow these 22find.com removal instructions.